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All-Time Red Sox Roster: Smoky Joe Wood

Seasons in Boston: 1908-1915

Honors: 2x World Series Champion, 1915 ERA Champion

Red Sox Numbers: 1.99 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 117 W, 986 K, 68 ERA-, 26.2 fWAR

Signature Season (1912): 344 IP, 258 K, 34 W, 1 SV, 1.91 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 7.6 fWAR

It’s always a little challenging to wrap your head around the numbers put up by great Deadball Era pitchers. The art of pitching, the mound, and the ball were all so different back then that what these players accomplished seems foreign to us now.